mrras27 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

When compiling LWP I get the following failure and need to get this installed to move on with my life:
perl -v = v5.8.4 built for sun4-solaris-64int

Error: html/form.............NOK 99# Test 99 got: '' (html/form.t at line 476)
# Expected: 'zero'
# html/form.t line 476 is: ok(join(":", $f->find_input("r0")->value_names), "zero");
html/form.............FAILED test 99
Failed 1/103 tests, 99.03% okay

Reasons? Suggestions?
Thank you,

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Re: LWP failed testing
by PodMaster (Abbot) on Dec 01, 2005 at 07:16 UTC
    So whats stopping you from installing it? A Guide to Installing Modules

    MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"
    I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).
    ** The third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.

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      It will not allow me to install the module because of the failed test... I do not see any errors within the compiling to suggest WHY it would not all me to install because of 1 failed test (the very last test of the HTML/Form test)

      here is the rest of the make test portion that I failed to give....
      Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed
      -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      html/form.t 103 1 0.97% 99
      Failed 1/30 test scripts, 96.67% okay. 1/759 subtests failed, 99.87% okay.
      *** Error code 29
      make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `test'
      thank you for any help you can provide
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        looks like if you down-rev (libwww-perl-5.79) it is all happy and working... thanks for your help
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        It will not allow me to install the module because of the failed test...
        make install doesn't care if you passed tests or not, it will always try to install the module.

        If you're using something else to install modules (cpanp/cpan/whatever), and its not letting you install a module because of failing tests, you'll need to RTFM for help.

        MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"
        I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).
        ** The third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.

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Re: LWP failed testing
by kulls (Hermit) on Dec 01, 2005 at 11:59 UTC
    Hi,
    I guess u can check here to conclude where is it reside.
    -kulls
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